Evening Star Newspaper, December 3, 1935, Page 26

TEACHERS' OATH NOVEMENT GROWS ‘Educational and Patriotic Organizations Arrayed ¢ Against Each Other. By the Associated Press. A survey today showed the move- ment to require teachers to swear ‘oaths of loyalty has gained much Anomentum. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, DAILY SHORT STORY THE ARTIN came up to the top - of the hill and from there he saw Madge kneeling at the boat landing, as she was untying the rowboat. “Wait ‘for me, I'm coming!" Mar- tin called, and sprinted down the Twenty-two States have passed such | slope. ‘Jaws, seven of them in the past year. In 20 other States, teachers’ oaths ibills are pending or are expected to be introduced when Legislatures open ‘again. Vigorous controversy has attended /he drive. “Swear to uphold the onstitution” is the cry of the Daugh- jters of the American Revolution, the ‘American Legion and its auxiliary #nd the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Urge “Academic Freedom.” In reply, “academic freedom” is being urged by John W. Studebaker, ‘Federal commissioner of education; by ‘the National Educational Association and the American Federation of Teachers. Because the last Congress passed not only an ocath law for the District of Columbia, but a law under which teachers here have to sign a state- | ready for college in another six ment they did not teach communism ‘before receiving pay-checks, this city | “You run like a deer,” said Madge. “You run like one, walk like one and are one,” re- turned Martin as he struck a dra- matic pose, and they both laughed. For they were happy as very young people would be who had fallen in love for the first time and under the usual circumstances. Martin had come out to the Sum- overexerting himself all Summer with play, in preparation to enter college. He had found Madge, who would be months; she had been deeply con- cerned about the college she was go- ‘has become a storm-center of the|ing to attend, but not any longer. struggle. ; One argument for teachers’ oaths As advanced by Mrs. Vinton Earl Sis- -son, national defense chairman of the D. A R, in a recent publication: She was going to the same college Martin was; after all, it was the best college in the world, so why shouldn’t she? “Have you made up your mind to “Never have we thought that any | stay over until tomorrow and go home public servant endangered his freedom of thought, or speech, by taking an ,oath of allegiance to the Constitution sof the United States, the very bulwark | of freedom.” Seen Means of Intimidation. An excerpt from an “academic freedom” resolution passed by the Na- jtional Educational Association: “The 7sudden singling out of teachers to '.Ytake an oath of allegiance is a means of intimidation which can be used to destroy the right of academic free- ‘adom.” Officials of the N. E. A. said today their objection to the oaths lay in be- ing made a “special target” of “pres- with us?” Madge asked. * x * % “I'VE made up my mind,” Martin | | smiled. “I'll be in college for at least four years, so what is one day more or less?"” “Nothing at all,” said Madge. “Unless it's with you,” said Martin, and he wondered how it was that he had suddenly become so witty, not knowing the excitement of love makes youth alert and more than ordinarily alive. . It was late morning and the sun poured down its pleasant warmth. It danced like laughter on the full green trees and over the luminous surface of By Frank Kern Levin. “Why, of course, I did.” mer resort for a few days’ rest, after ! LIE she sald to him could have been other than remark- able. “We don't go on, though. It's funny, but it doesn't take long to learn that there’s an end to everything. That Madge with a smile. “And did you get up early enough to see the sun rise as you said you would after you kissed me last night?” She blushed. “Why, of course I did” Martin blurted out, and then he stopped, because he hadn't. The fact was he' Madge began to talk about some- | thing else; but the thought kept com- ing back to his mind. Why had he | said he had got up early when he | hadn’t? Why had he lied about 1t? | There really wasn't any reason why he should have. * % ok * | ‘OF' COURSE, the night before he | | had said he would, and then it | | had seemed very important for him to | do so. But he just hadn't, and he should have said he hadn't. Here he | was in love with this girl—and he had | | lied to her. | They kept rowing about in the lake | for & while, and then they went in \!or lunch and after that they sat in the shade while Madge played her | | banjo and sang. | Por a while Martin would forget | about it, and then it would come back | to him, and the memory of the lie he | had told her was desperately annoying. | He didn’t know why it should be so, | | for it was such a little thing. | He turned to her and then he| | stopped. Somehow it was very dif-| | ficult to tell her he had lied. | “What is the matter with you?” | | Madge asked petulantly. “You've been | acting like a crab ever since we came | back from rowing. Have I done | something?” | most and at the same time least un- . hadn’t got up until quite late. CITIZENS CHOOSE TAX COMMITTEE Kenilworth Group Takes Steps to Fight Rise in D. C. Levies. A special committee to study the tax situation in the District was ap- pointed by the Kenilworth Citizens’ Association last night at a meeting in the Kenilworth School. Charles Maize was appointed chair- man of the committee, which includes A. Benson and I. D. Wiseman. The group will go before the Commis- sioners as soon as & public hearing is called. The committee will devote special study to the reported need for an in- crease in taxes to meet budget require- ments. The association is opposed to & tax increase. Better police protection for the Kenilworth area was demanded by the citizens. The organization voted to D. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1935 ask Ma]. Ernest W. Brown, superin- tendent of police, to increase the per- sonnel of the eleventh precinct, which covers the section. It was pointed out the assoclation was not finding fault wiht the precinct commander, as there are only 64 men assigned to the sta- tion. Numerous robberies have been reported recently. Maj. Brown also will be asked to assign & policeman to the raiiroad crossing at Quarles street to protect school children before and after school and during lunch period. The association requested that local unemployed men be given preference on the sewer and tunnel projects in Kenilworth. The citizens said most of the men now on the jobs are from Adantic City Saswrdays, Dacomber 7, 31 $4.25—1-Dey Excorsion New York \ 2 24_: Cosches only Lv. 030 A M0 : Baltimore 1.85 Eeery Saturday - Sundey 1.50 Deaily—Goed for 3 daye ENJOY A THREE WEEK HOLIDAY OVER CHRISTMAS —:“' vah':lm o Week-end Tores svs exvonded: PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Ta- 72N t. Come lovely little With bench to mateh and free delivery. Trade in your old piane. isure groups” with “implication of dis- | the small lake. | s | {Joyalty.” But John Thomas Taylor of | Martin's eyes were bright with love | “Why no—it wasn't you, it was me,” ! ithe American Legion National Legisla- | and with the wonder of all things. As| Martin said. | “tive Committee said: he stared at the sky he seemed to rise| “What did you co?” Madge asked | . “Teachers must sincerely and hon- | and emerge from reality into its crys- | suspiciously. ! estly believe in the principle of the | talline splendor. He saw a squirrel *r xa | {Constitution, which is the corner stone | cut in and out among the trees, and, OU could see from the girl's eyes of our national well-being, and the | seeing it, his heart beat more quickly that she was suddenly sure that i{American Legion believes they should | and he felt an overwhelming gentle- nportin had a past. ‘willingly qualify themselves to teach | ness toward all things. “Well I —" began Martin, “You by swearing to uphold and defend the ¢Constitution * * *” Studebaker says: “We must state Jour faith plainly and defend not only our profession, but democracy itself, ‘by insisting on freedom of thought and freedom of instruction.” . 'NATIONAL DEFENSE ¢ COMMITTEE NAMED Maj. Harvey Miller of Capital In- cluded in Group Selected by V. F. W. Head. By the Associated Press. Appointment of a Committee of Na- . tional Defense to represent the Veter- ans of Foreign Wars before congres- sional committees was announced yes- iterday by Commander in Chief James YE. Van Zandt. “War and threats of war the world over make American military prepar- ‘edness vital at this time,” Van Zandt said, adding that the Ethiopian cam- paign “threatens to spread into a gen- eral European conflict.” Wise national economy, he asserted, “should not allow the Army and Navy 1o suffer.” The committee, headed by Lieut. Col. George E. Ijams, assistant ad- ministrator of the Veterans’- Adminis- tration, includes Col. Julian Burrus, commandant of Virginia Military In- stitute, Lexington, Va.; Gen. A. M. ‘Tuthill, Phoenix, Ariz.; Ray Flem- ming, adjutant general of Louisiana; Col. Hamilton Gardner, Salt Lake City; Col. Thomas Tierney, surgeon general of Massachusetts; Neil W. Kimball, adjutant general of Colorad Col. W. P. Screws, Montgomery, Al Capt. Richard C. O’'Connell, Bal ‘more, Md.; Col. Phil Westhfahl, Mil- waukee, Wis.; Capt. Clarence Quig- ley, Great Bend, Kans.; Maj. Harvey Miller, U. 8. M. C, retired, Wash- ington, D. C.; Maxwell O. Thrower, Bt. Augustine, Fla.; Lee W. Brawford, Esterville, Iowa, and Charles F. Hack- ett, jr., Parker, 8. Dak. SILVER SPRING TO SEE LANDSCAPE EXHIBITS 82 Pictures in Display of Wash- ington Club All This Month at Town Library. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., December 3. —An art exhibit by the Landscape Club of Washington wlil be held all of this month at the Silver Spring Public Library. The exhibit is composed of 32 pic- tures, all of which are landscapes painted by Washington artists. Among them are several paintings by R. Bruce Horsfall, one of the leading artists in this country in depicting bird and animal life, whose work has been shown at the library several times before. Most of the paintings represent scenes in this section of the country and are unusually beautiful. The ex- hibit is the same that has been shown reoently in the Mount Pleasant Public Library, with a few additions. ADVERTISEMENT. ' TO0 MUCH ACID MAY BE not believe it was true that he—yes, he, his very self—had actually held her sweet, exciting warmth in his arms. “Isn't everything fust so beautiful!” | Madge exclaimed. “Everything is,” said Martin. is a funny thing, isn't it? “Life selves, or really not ourselves at all in the sense of what we could be, until something happens to us—and it's | just like pushing an electric button and suddenly flooding darkness with light.” 1 * % ¥ ¥ | ARTIN was amazed at his own thoughts; he was stirred by his philosophy. In his emotional excite- ment he attached deep significance to it. “I could go on like this forever,” | said Madge, and it never occurred to | Martin that she had again said the most commonplace of things, for un- | nothing | der the circumstances | He looked at Madge and he could | It seems | as though we are mostly only half our- | | know while we were out on the boat | ride and you asked me if I got up early | this morning.” | “Yes, I remember—what adout it?” | “I—1 lied to you. I really didn't get up early. I really didn't get up | until about half an hour before I saw you. I lied,” finished Martin. He | looked at her, and somehow he was | even more disturbed than he thought | he would be. { “Is that all that's been worrying you? I thought it was really some- | thing, and now I'm disappointed. | What difference does it make?” | “Why, no difference,” said Martin, and later on that evening he said to | | her: “I'm sorry, Madge, but I can't| | stay over as we planned. 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